I have an AV3000 remote with the same receiver. Set the receiver and your original remote to AV1 (Under Settings on the receiver and Use Mode + AV1 on the remote), and you should be able to program and use the VL1000. Sony defaults it to AV2

I read this off another thread, so can't take credit for the solution.

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